The annual four-days of multimedia madness known as the New York Comic Con opens today and more than 130,000 people are expected to attend the four day celebration of comics and other media.   Since the first NYCC in 2006 attendance has grown from a modest 16,000 to numbers that rival the largest such event in the […]

Last month Heroic Publishing ramped up it’s release schedule on the #1 digital comics platform, Comixology.  The California-based publisher had sporadically released a number of titles through Comixology earlier in 2014.  Now Heroic is releasing three digital comics a week through them, and so far titles released have included Flare, Flare Adventures, Champions, Champions Adventures, […]

Classic tales of Heroic Publishing’s FLARE and the CHAMPIONS are now available on the comic book industry’s premier digital distribution system, with new issues arriving every two weeks! In each issue of FLARE, follow the adventures of comics’ shining goddess of light, as she navigates the pitfalls of juggling her career as an international supermodel with the […]

PITTSBURGH, PA- Flanked by Action Lab staffers and talent including Ray-Anthony Height, Jeremy Dale, Vito DelSante, Gayle Middleton, Emily Martin, James Wright, Phillip Selvy and Nick Marino, Creative Director and writer/ artist Dave Dwonch announced Action Lab’s slate of upcoming releases at the is years San Diego Comic Con International. Grand Design Communications represents foreign […]

Wayne Vansant’s The Red Baron: the graphic history of Richthofen’s Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI, the fifth in his series of graphic novel for the Zenith Graphic History series, was released last month to wide acclaim.  As with the previous volumes in the series, Normandy, Grant Vs Lee, Bombing Nazi Germany, and Gettysburg, the books were […]

Wayne Vansant, creator of Katusha and the Zenith Graphic History series, will be signing books and comics at a Marietta , Georgia area Barnes & Noble store on Saturday August 2 as part of their “Get Pop-Cultured – Marvel Day” celebration of comics, particularly Marvel Comics. Vansant was the artist on Marvel’s groundbreaking Vietnam War […]

One-Hit Wonder, the five-issue series published by Image Comics, is now available for licensing to publishers worldwide from Grand Design Communications.  Created by French writer Fabrice Sapolsky and Argentine artist Ariel Olivetti, One-Hit Wonder (published in France as Hollywood Killer) tells the story of Richie Reese, a child actor turned hitman.  Image’s official press release […]

This fall the prestigious art book publisher Taschen will release a spectacular new book written by Roy Thomas,  75 Years of Marvel: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen.   The over-sized 700+ page hardcover retails for $200 and covers the history of Marvel from the release of Timely’s Marvel Comics #1 in 1939 to […]

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As the world marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, comics podcast Pete’s Basement, “The hilarious comic book talk show with authentic New York style. Trusted by thousands of viewers each week” reviewed the Zenith Graphic History books on their June 9 program, hyped on their website as: D-Day is upon us. Pete, Ramon, […]